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ReviewHeart failure reviews2015

Myocardial interstitial remodelling in non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy: insights from cardiovascular magnetic resonance.

Andrea Barison, Chrysanthos Grigoratos, Giancarlo Todiere, Giovanni Donato Aquaro

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Review in Heart failure reviews, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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26citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.4field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrea BarisonFondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy. dr.andrea.barison@gmail.com.
Chrysanthos GrigoratosFondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Giancarlo TodiereFondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Giovanni Donato AquaroFondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy.
Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio · ITUniversity of Pisa · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Myocardial remodelling involves not only the myocytes, but also non-myocyte cells and the extracellular matrix, which constitutes around 6 % of the normal heart and includes fluid, collagen and glycoproteins. In non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), the cardiac interstitium increases as a result of diffuse interstitial (microscopic) fibrosis, post-necrotic replacement (macroscopic) fibrosis or myocardial oedema. The activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is a major determinant of fibroblasts activation and collagen deposition, with the transforming growth factor β as the downstream signal mediator. Endomyocardial biopsy still represents the current reference method for interstitial and replacement myocardial fibrosis assessment, but cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) allows in vivo detection of macroscopic fibrosis with post-contrast late enhancement imaging. Moreover, recent pre- and post-contrast T1 mapping techniques provide a quantitative estimation of myocardial interstitial remodelling, with potential diagnostic and prognostic clinical utility. Here, we review the pathophysiological mechanisms of myocardial interstitial remodelling in DCM, its non-invasive characterization with biomarkers and with CMR, as well as the most recent studies about their clinical utility.

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BiomarkersBiopsyCardiomyopathy, DilatedContrast MediaExtracellular MatrixFibrosisHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyMyocardiumBiomarkersContrast MediaDilated cardiomyopathyFibrosisInterstitiumLate enhancementMagnetic resonanceRemodellingT1 mappingT2 mapping

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PMID26423909
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